Henry Downes

Cohort Year: 2019

Advisors: Kasey Buckles (Co-chair), William Evans (Co-chair), Daniel Hungerman

Job Market Paper Title: Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom

Research Interests: Applied microeconomics, Labor, Public, Health, Demography, Economic History, Housing

Henry Downes is an applied microeconomist whose research examines the ways in which economic security shapes health outcomes, demographic patterns, and economic opportunity. At Notre Dame, he has served as a research assistant with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities and as an instructor for Statistics and Principles of Microeconomics. His work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics. Henry received his BA in Economics from the University of Alabama in 2015.